Robert Shetterly with Dolores Volk, an MU custodian who emailed him last summer to include former slave Elizabeth Freeman in his series. The Enquirer/Cara Owsley

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Sue Kiesewetter
| Enquirer contributor

Robert Shetterly's art helps him define who he is and how he interacts in the world.

It allows the self-taught artist to talk about history, ethics, democracy and citizenship.

For the last 11 years, the Cincinnati native, who moved to Maine in 1970, has worked on a project called Americans Who Tell the Truth. It started as a single painting of poet Walt Whitman, unveiled in January 2002, and has grown to nearly 200 paintings. ...